A biography for Sean Lockhasn’t been written yet.
“I go to my office nearly every day, and I'll sit there for six or seven hours and come up with ideas, and that's the only way I can justify turning up on stage.”
“I finished school in 1981 when there was a recession on so there was not a lot of money around or work. I worked on building sites during that time and there were many people on the dole or always looking for work.”
“It's fantastic to be at the back of a theatre and to think, 'These people have come to see me.'”
“There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.”
“There's someone on Twitter who pretends to be me but as long as he doesn't say anything damaging, I don't care. Let him get on with it.”
“I'm actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home... no really, I'm strict.”
“I never go in the sun without a shirt on and always use a moisturiser with an SPF every day on my face.”
“Salad cream is horrible, like albino ketchup.”
“Ron Mueck's 'Dead Dad' was fantastic. It was an almost exact replica of his dead dad's body, shrunk to be a third of the size, a very powerful sculpture.”
“Touring can be quite a dull life.”
“15 Storeys High' is the hardest thing I've worked on. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
“I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike.”
“I did once have a MySpace site but it was like a badly tended grave.”
“To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.”
“I've got genuine political reasons for not voting for David Cameron. He's got a tiny little mouth.”
“Real men will eat anything I mean anything. I think the only food I have ever turned down was a boiled goat's head while hitch-hiking in Yugoslavia in the 1980s.”